Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-22
AN APPEAL TO CHURCHILL.
An Archbishop of Toronto InterCedes In
Behalf of ireland,

NEW YORK, March 21.-The Hr,dId to,
day publishes the following:
ST. MICHAEL'S PALACE,
TORONTO, March l., 1SS7.
10 tie Editor Of the HTdld
send you my letter to Lo,d Churchill,
asking youto publish it. Yours,
JUmN JOSEPH LYNCH,
Archbishop OF Toronto.
To tie Eight Honorable RaRdoim ChurchiH
My DEAR LORD CHuRCHILL-You must
recolect prelate from Canada who paid a
visit 10 the Vice Regal Lodge at Dublin in
1879 to thank your venerable and noble
mother, the Duchess of Marlborough, for
ner kindness, liberality and charity toward
the starving Irish. had the honor then
OF short acquaintance with your lOrdship.
Gu that occasion | predicted yOu would
become great state man. The twinkling
of your brilliant eyes, however, portrayed
you would be a little TeStive for a few
years. have assiduouSly watched your
course since then, sometimes with regret
Belfast, at other times with Joy, but al.
ways with great hope. The motives OF your
reSigning a very honorable and important
post in the Cabinet of England proved the
honor, valOr and self-respect OF great
mind. Your motto appears TO be Fiat
Justitia, Ruat CTlum." On this noble
disposition of yours depend much.
Now, my dear Lord Randolph, the object
OF this letter is 10 beg you TO study the
Irish question root and branch, not in the
spirit OF party, but of Justice to all men. -
an confident, from your character OF
uprightnesS and honor, that vou will,
even for this once,
JOIN MR.. GLADSTONE
and bring peace and prosperity to Ireland
and effect more stable union between
England and Ireland. Your lordship can
not but feel the disgraceful contradiction
involved in the present attitude of the
British Parliament toward Ireland, and nc
wonder you are away from it at present.
On the other hand, admitting the inius,
tiCe of the landlords exactions and the
utter inability of the tenants 10 meet
them lin consequence Of the low price
of produce, the British House passes
a law appointing commission to regulate
rents, which results in their being reduced
in many instances TO one-half or one third
OF their former amount On the other hand
the machinery of that tribunal being 81
cumbersome and slow that fifty years would
scarcely suffice for the hearing of all the
cases, the landlords are avaling themselve:
of this delay aud are pushing eyictious by
wholesale, and the British Parliament
stultifying itself, prostitutes the power O.
the law, which should be sacred, by grant
ing the aid of police and sheriffs and bailiff:
in eviCting thousands Of unfortunate peo
pie, young and old, in the most inclement
season of the year, amid the screams anC
cries OF starving women and children anC
the curses of enraged men; thus helping
the landlords TO exact rents which tn,
Court appointed by the Government haC
in parallel cases pronounced flagrantly un
just.
Does this accord with the true philos
ophy of Just and legitimate government
Cannot even the little children Of IrelanG
see the
DOUBLE DEALING AND FALSE POSITION
of their rulers, whose laws should com
mand respect, not contempt? When au
thority stultifes itself people will not b
persuaded to respect it. But authority
should 50 conduct itself as to command th,
respect of all right minded men. Their
should not be in the government o
Ireland such mean deception as condemn
ing the landlords for exscting exorbitan
rents and then lending them all the fore
Of British bayonets and rifles to exact thes'